... it was the season of VAR. I expressed my doubts at the halfway point of the season, and I have not changed my opinion. But the refereeing hierarchy insist that it has been a great success, so it is here ...

... season in Portuguese football (including mutual suspicion and verbal abuse between clubs, refereeing controversies and police investigations into cases of corruption) and a couple of months of high tension ...

... as my father studied there in the late 1950s. Twenty years later, as a mature student, he often refereed their games. The book’s central tenet describes a footballing set-up that is unique in this ...

... In contrast, Hand’s was a reign pockmarked by ill-fortune, most infamously a Portuguese referee disallowing a perfectly good Frank Stapleton goal in a crucial World Cup qualifier against Belgium ...

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What I quickly learned was you can spend Saturday nights ringing up random phone numbers trying to find an emergency referee. You discuss the annual Lads v Dads match in an empty pub on a Wednesday night ...

... Cole explained in the current issue of WSC
1 March ~ The first goal ever awarded on the basis of review by the video assistant referee (VAR) was heralded as a truly historic moment and a triumph of ...

... decisions from the referee, who just happened to be the brother of Blackburn’s goalkeeper. At the final whistle, thousands of aggrieved Burnley fans raced onto the pitch and chased the referee int ...

... his bike being whacked and riding off home, thus bringing the game to a halt until a new goalpost could be invented.
There was never a referee, contentious decisions were resolved by on-field arbitration ...

... freak Mark Clattenburg In 2016 Mark Clattenburg took charge of the FA Cup final, the Champions League final and the Euro 2016 final. At the Dubai Globe Soccer Awards he was named Referee of the Year. ...

... With Serie A at the halfway point, bar two postponed games to be played on January 24, this seems an appropriate moment to consider what effect the use of the Video Assistant Referee (VAR) has had on results. ...

... hat-tricks, one for Fulham’s outstanding teenage wing-back Ryan Sessegnon, attacking football that bordered on reckless, players kicking each other up in the air, ropey refereeing and a roaring at ...